A very welcome development

As Michael Jennings of this parish often points out, Australian political culture is as corrupt and nasty as pretty much anywhere else in the First World. But nevertheless, this is rather good news:

Tony Abbott, Australia’s centre-right Prime Minister, finally made good on his pre-election pledge after his government repealed the measure introduced by his Labor predecessor Julia Gillard. Poorly thought out and highly unpopular, the tax is almost unique in that it generated virtually no revenue for the Australian Treasury, contributed to the rising costs that have taken the gloss off the country’s resources boom and essentially brought down Ms Gillard’s former Government.

Of course it is not nearly enough, but it is a good start. The important thing is this destroys the aura of invincible inevitability that the Cult of Anthropogenic Climate Change has built up, tearing it off like the vestments of an unchallengeable priesthood to reveal what truly lies beneath. Now drive a stake through the evil beast’s green heart.

July 17th, 2014 |

8 comments to A very welcome development

Uh oh.
Did someone stand up and say “SO, where’s the omelet…..?”
It just SUCKS when some “unenlightened” kid shouts out “HEY! The Emperor’s Naked…”.
Before you know it, folks might start questioning the protection racket from the inevitable threat by “The Farmer” too!
CLEARLY a NEW panel of blind men must be appointed to explain the model, in their minds eye, of the elephant in the room.

Sounds like the author of that Telegraph piece is conflating some characteristics of the carbon tax with the equally ill-considered Minerals Resource Rent Tax, commonly known as the mining tax (a now-doomed tax on mining ‘superprofits’). It was the MRRT that raised almost no revenue. The carbon tax brought in several billions annually. Also, it was the MRRT that took the shine off the resources boom – less so the carbon tax.

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